Archive for October, 2003

Desperate for talk radio on Monday, while driving around running errands on my day off, I turned on Rush Limbaugh’s program. He wasn’t there, of course, and Roger Hedgecock was sitting in for him. I listened. I really tried. I withstood about 10 minutes of it, but the tone of it was viscerally upsetting to […]

Rode on the team plane this weekend, to throw an alumni pregame beforehand. The location was remote enough that riding the team plane for free was a much better (budget) option than purchasing two commercial tickets at over $500 apiece for two staff people. Disastrous. Cramped. Awful. On the bus from campus to the airport, […]

Went to see Graham Colton perform at the Engine Room last night. They were the guys that opened for Counting Crows and John Mayer when we saw them in August. A good time was not had by all, and we left in the middle of Graham’s set, not because they were bad — not at […]

When did it become OK — nay, one might even say “cool” — to be a geek? This is a particularly weird trend, in my humble, geeked-out opinion. It seems geek culture is everywhere you turn. Thanks to Matt, I now know that GQ did a whole article on Geek Chic this fall. There are […]

It’s Yom Kippur; Albert and I are curled up in bed. Dan and I should be going to services, but we don’t have anywhere to go. Barring that, I should be at work today, because this week kicks off a very busy month and a half for me, including half-a-dozen trips around Texas and the […]